>>5085121Indeed, you know why folklore/evermore went so well? It's because it was expected. See Taylor is a woman now, not a girl anymore. Her public the people who grew up listening to her songs are also women now, sure there's a lot of new listeners and such, but fact is: she can't be singing about teenager love anymore and those albums were exactly that, a mature way of seeing life and love in general. Then midnights came and it was some sort of midlife crises in my opinion but then the tortured poet departs is a total senseless album, certainly it does speak to a few but in general her worst album. Totally unrelated to anything she went through before, see her career was built around the things she went through her life connecting facts to her songs and that what made her so relatable to her public but then in ttpd things got lost.
See Fortnight by example, what was that song about? It was totally unrelated to her actual state in life, something her public is used to, her love life iwasn't bad, she never really went crazy, she wasn't suffering from a break up. You wanna see how it is true? The song So High school was a success cause it followed the same strategic manner she released her previously songs cause it was related to her actual life with Travis Kelce and that's what her public expects.
Honestly I'd think that if she wants her next album to be another huge success, despite her enormous fanbase that will listen to anything she writes, she gotta keep doing what is working in a manner to be remembered such as many of her previous albums were, I can see people going back and listening to songs such as My tears ricochet, hoax, exile and such in certain moments of their life when they face something they can really relate, I can see young girls listening to So high school when feeling in love for the first time, but I can't really see people going back to listen The smallest man who ever lived in such a manner.